Highlights in focus issue on prostate cancer.

Chin J Cancer Res 2013;25(6):784-785 www.thecjcr.org In September 2013, the Translational Andrology and Urology (TAU) launched a focus issue on “Prostate Cancer”, which was guest-edited by Dr. Jer-Tsong Hsieh and Dr. Ganesh Raj from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA. In this focus issue, Dr. Raj and Dr. Hsieh invited an international expert panel of clinicians and basic scientists to outline current challenges of prostate cancer treatment and discuss every aspect of hormonal metabolism, receptor alteration and mechanism in prostate cancer to pave a way for developing better therapeutic strategy and prognostic tools. Also, a wide range of topics such as cancer metastasis, animal model, molecular imaging and targeted therapy of prostate cancer were included as well. Our distinguished contributors are from Tulane University School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Northwestern University and so forth. TAU (Transl Androl Urol; Print ISSN 2223-4683; Online ISSN 2223-4691; www.amepc.org/tau) is an open access, peer reviewed, international journal which publishes articles that describe new findings in the field of translational research of Andrology and Urology, provides current and practical information on basic research, diagnosis, prevention and clinical investigations of Andrology and Urology. Our editor-in-chiefs are Prof. Yinglu Guo, an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and an academic leader of Urology and Andrology, and Prof. Tom F. Lue, Vice-Chair of Urology at University of California, San Francisco, USA.